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(6 years ago)The number of vaccinated children in the world, which has not been growing since 10 years, has dropped alarmingly due to COVID-19's pandemic, two UN agencies warned today. Before the choreography show in late 2019, the percentage of the vaccine DTP3 (difter, tetanous and good cough) and rubella [...]
The number of vaccinated children in the world, which has not been growing since 10 years, has dropped alarmingly due to COVID-19's pandemic, two UN agencies warned today.
Before the choreography show in late 2019, the percentage of the vaccine DTP3 (difter, tetanous and good cough) and rubella had already remained at 85%, with 14 million children unexplored annually, mainly in Africa, O recalls O BSH (World Health Organization) and U NICEF (United Nations Children's Fund).
“Pandemia has caused obstacles to the vaccine campaigns in the three-quarters of 82 countries”, according to an Internet study conducted in June by two agencies and the Alliance for vaccine (Gavi).
Report Expresses Especially Concern About Lowing the vaccine DTP3 in the first four months of the year, due to transportation difficulties, restrictions caused by pandemic or the fear of contamination, the ATS reported.
At least 30 anti-Robeola vaccine campaigns have been threatened worldwide”, agencies stress.
“Vaxis are one of the most powerful tools in health history and more children than ever now are immune”, O general director stressed. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreesus in a statement.
“COVID-19 has turned what used to be routine vaculation into a disturbing” challenge, U executive director stressed NICEF, Henrietta Fore.
“We need to resume vaccination programmes urgently before children's lives are threatened by other diseases. We cannot exchange a health crisis against another”, she added.
